think_brilliant.pdf) TV star Rainn Wilson, seeking as much as $11.3 million over allegations that the actor didn't properly compensate the company for helping develop his Web site, SoulPancake.

Wilson is a star of the popular NBC sitcom "The Office."

The suit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Portland, complains that Wilson didn't grant Think Brilliant partial ownership of the site.

SoulPancake is a collaborative site that's part philosophy, part silliness: (It asks visitors "What role should religion play for scientists?" and "What's your poetic comfort food?")

In the suit, Think Brilliant alleges that Wilson told the company last month that there was no more money for SoulPancake and asked to put development on hold.

The company says that it gave SoulPancake access to a database containing its proprietary information, but that the company or Wilson "surreptitiously hacked into plaintiff’s database with an unauthorized 'administrator' password, extracted confidential materials" and gained access to Think Brilliant's confidential materials.

Early this month, the suit alleges, Wilson sent e-mails to Think Brilliant employees alleging "fraud, as well as intent to defraud."

The Portland Business Journal first
reported Think Brilliant's suit, which seeks compensation for breach of contract, defamation, violations of Oregon's Trade Secrets Act and up to $4.2 million in punitive damages. The suit also asks for "reasonable" attorney fees.

Think Brilliant and its attorneys did not immediately return calls for comment this evening. Wilson, an active Twitter user, did not respond to a Tweet.

The two parties appeared highly amiable last month, when Wilson called Think Brilliant founder Aviv Hadar "a visionary" in a Fast Company article.